Drapery-hook



(No Model.)

B. T'ILTON 811M. OOWEN.

DRAPERY HOOK. I 7 No; 384,004. Patented June 5, 1888.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AND MABTINCOWEN, or CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

DRAPERY- H'OOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,004, dated June 5,1888.

Application filed February 9, 1888. Serial No. 263,513. (No model.)

MARTIN OowEN, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Drapery-Hooks,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the means used for suspending drapery orcurtains, generally in a drawingor sliding manner, upon rods, poles, ortheir equivalents. Safety-pins adapted to engage with the drapery, andprovided with hooks which pass through eyes in sliding rings upon thepole or overhead-carrier, are ordinarily used for this purpose; but suchdevices, besides being costly,are objectionable, not only on accountofthe unsightly appearance in some cases of the pin portion of thefastening and its liability to tear or pucker the drapery, but onaccount of the liability, as such fastenings are ordinarily constructed,of the hook portion of the fastening to detach itself from the eye inthe sliding ring on jerking the curtain, and the unsuitableness of sucha fastening to drapery having folds or box-like plaits in it.

Our invention consists in a suspensiorrhook for drapery constructed of apiece of spring metal of peculiar bent, combined staple, and hook-likeform, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in theclaims, and in a combination of the same with a sliding drapery orcurtain ring having an eye adapted to receive through it thespring-prongs of the hook, which automatically lock therewith.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part ofthis specification,in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a curtain or other likepole and piece of drapery or curtain, in part, with our improvedsuspension or drapery hook applied in connection with sliding rings onthe pole. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the drapery-hook detached,and Fig. 3 a perspective view of said hook under a modified form ofconstruction.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, A indicates thedrapery-hook, made of a piece of spring metal, preferably wire, butsheet metal will answer. The one portion of the hook is of staple-likeform, consisting of a barlike head or back, I), and sides 0 a,converging away fromv said back. At the converging ends 5 5 of saidsides 0 c the wire or metal is turned over downward and bent back andlaterally outward, thereby forming flaring or diverging spring-prongs dd, pointed or sharpened at their outer extremities and lying at acuteangles in relation with the sides a c. The lateral divergency of thepointed ends of these prongs is preferably equal to the length of theback b, for a reason that will be hereinafter stated.

B indicates the rod or pole, from which the drapery or curtain G issuspended by means of any number of the hooks A and sliding rings D,provided each with a lower eye, e.

In applying the hooks A the same are projected by their prongs d (1,while spread out or backs Z2 exposed on the outside thereof and thelaterally-diverging prongs dd inclining downward toward the drapery atits back. The spring-prong portions d d are then pressed together topass them through the eyes e of the sliding rings D, after whichpressure is removed and the prongs allowed to spring back to theirnormal position, which effectually locks the hooks from being jerked oraccidentally passing out of the eyes e of the rings by any pull that maybe made upon the curtain or drapery.

By the construction as described of the hooks, which may be made muchcheaper than any combined safety-pin and hook, said hooks A are equallyapplicable to either folded or 0 plain and flat surfaces of the drapery,as shown, respectively, at the left and right hand sides of Fig. 1. Suchhooks, too, will neither tear nor pucker the latter, especially when theprongs d d are at the same distance apart at their points which firstpenetrate the drapery as the back I) of the hook is long, and anautomatic locking of the hook with the eye of the sliding ring by theoutward lateral spring of the prongs is secured.

Fig. 3 of the drawings represents a substantially similar constructionof staple-like hook for use in a like manher--that is by passing thehooked portion of the fastening through the drapery and engaging suchportion with the eye on the ring; but the sides a c are not madeconverging, nor are the elastic prongs d d laterally flaring. Inapplying the hook, however, it will be necessary to press the sides 0 0together till they do converge away from the back b, as well as to presstogether the elastic prong portions d d, to enable the latter Io passthroughthe eye on the hook.

Haring thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The elastic staple-like hook herein described for suspending drapery,composed of a bar-like head or back and sides bent to terminate inprongs inclining downward and away from said head or back, essentiallyas ea specified.

2. A hook for suspending drapery, cons'tructed of a piece of springmetal bent to form a bar-like head or back, I), converging sides a c,and laterally-flaring elastic prongs d d,inclining downward toward thehead or back and of a distance apart at their points corre- RALPHTILTON. MARTIN OOWEN.

\Vitnesses:

A. GREGORY, G. SEDGWIOK.

